alcaic

alcaic has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• a.. Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.
• n.. A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.
• n.. verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus